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Discussion on: The Shell Introduction I Wish I Had

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Tom

About vim, you can add

export EDITOR='nano'

to .bash_profile to switch default editor to Nano.
Nano maybe is less powerful but much more intuitive for new bash users (to be honest I still use it and don't want invest my time into vim). And another thing that it is almost on all linux distributions as I know so you don't have to switch from nano editor on your local machine to vim on remote instances